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And he said it was madness for the leader’s supporters to blame so-called moderate Labour MPs, the media and pollsters.

He said: “The idea that Labour might do badly because of Michael Dugher’s tweets, someone who nobody has bloody heard of, rather than Jeremy Corbyn, who is standing to be prime minister, is just for the birds, it’s the politics of excuses.”

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Mr Corbyn has said the media are to blame for his bad poll ratings

The MP insisted he was very proud of the contribution he had played in former Goverments – adding he knew what poverty was like – unlike Jeremy Corbyn and his chief of staff Seumas Milne.

He said: “Unlike Jeremy and Seumas and others, who have no idea about government, who learned about socialism in expensive private schools, my politics was because of where I was from.

“I was born into the politics of Labour because I grew up in a pit village in the strike.”